Technical and Managerial Analysis of Solid Waste
Management and its Relation to the Environmental Health in Jayapura

Rosa Rantetoding,
Onny Setiani, Mursid Raharjo

ABSTRACT

Backround :
The waste management in Jayapura is considered poor, since it is still
depend on the employees from Sanitation Department and waste container
trucks from the Sanitation Department. The other problem is no strict
federal regulation and punishment for throwing garbage in inappropriate
places. Additionally, the locals forced the government to shut down the
Nafri’s solid waste disposal area by holding a demonstration protest
because it was not well treated by the government. The objective of this
research was to evaluate the technical and management aspect of solid
waste management in Jayapura.

Methods : This was a description explorative
research with qualitative analysis. A laboratory examination has been
done in order to find out the quality of river water, wells, and the air
condition around the solid waste disposal.

Conclusions :
There were several aspects
which need to be fixed for the solid waste processing in Jayapura. It
was Technical Operational, Institution, Finance, Regulation, and the
society participation. The solid waste disposal sanitation showed an
amount of vector, in this case, is a quite big number of flies that
reaches until ninety eight flies per grill block. The quality of clean
water in the area around the solid waste disposal andthe Nafri’s
camp area showed no pollution of heavy metals. However, based on
microbiologic examination, the water has not fulfilled the standard
quality parameter of bacteriologic. Additionally, the quality of the air
is also under the air standard regulation.